"Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when……" — Jules Verne
"Everything is possible for an eccentric, especially when he is English."
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151 Quotes by Jules Verne
Jules Verne has 151 quotes on this site.
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I have always fancied that the end of the world will be when some enormous boiler, heated to three thousand…
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I believe cats to be spirits come to earth.
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The Great Architect of the universe built it of good firm stuff.
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Science, my boy, is composed of errors, but errors that it is right to make, for they lead step by…
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No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is…
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The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons…
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Whatever one man is capable of imagining, other men will prove themselves capable of realizing.
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We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after…
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Travel enables us to enrich our lives with new experiences, to enjoy and to be educated, to learn respect for…
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I am nothing to you but Captain Nemo; and you and your companions are nothing to me but the passengers…
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As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature…
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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I have always idolized eccentric people.
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To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger…
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I know it's a cliche, but the whole family is just whacked. I mean, we're all out of our minds.…
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Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.
— Anton Chekhov
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The character truest to itself becomes eccentric rather than immovably centered, as Emerson defined the noble character of the hero.…
— James Hillman
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When I'm losing, they call me nuts. When I'm winning, they call me eccentric.
— Al McGuire
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It is the great support and solace of the saints in all the distresses that befall them here, that there…
— John Flavel
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The mind always functions in an eccentric way, the mind is always an idiot. The really intelligent person has no…
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Most people are much more unusual and complicated and eccentric and playful and creative than they have time to express.
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Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.
— Mark Twain
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If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as…
— John Eliot
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Seriously, I do not know what to say of this book [ Absalom, Absalom!] except that it seem to point…
— Clifton Fadiman
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